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Wartime Magazine Issue 47

02 June 2009

Winter 2009

Gallipoli: the August Offensive

The events between the 1915 Gallipoli landings and the final evacuation have been largely overlooked. This issue sets out to redress this imbalance.

  • A chain of disasters by Peter Burness.  
    The battle at Lone Pine was only part of a series of attacks in August 1915.
  • The August offensive at ANZAC by Robin Prior.  
    A re-examination of the strategy behind these famous battles.
  • Bloody Ridge: the assault on Lone Pine by Ashley Ekins.  
    Questions remain over whether the seizing of Lone Pine was a tragic miscalculation.
  • Chunuk Bair: A New Zealand epic by Ian McGibbon.  
    The New Zealanders’ assault on Chunuk Bair was not a lost opportunity.
  • Gallipoli revisited: a journey to the battlefields, 1919 by Janda Gooding.  
    When the war was over, Charles Bean’s major work was just beginning.
  • Nolan: the first great drama by Lola Watkins.  
    A little-known series of paintings on the Gallipoli campaign was inspired by the story of ancient Greek heroes.
  • A quiet hero by Peter Burness.  
    Already a hero of the Antarctic, a gifted man’s life was wasted at Gallipoli.
  • The Agent Orange story is not over by Graham Walker.  
    Sceptics should not be allowed the last word on the medical problems of Vietnam veterans.
  • Not all heroes by Michael Hammerston.  
    Determined to be a part of the Great War, Trooper Britten of the 8th Light Horse Regiment had a brief but troubled life of military indiscipline.
  • The spirit of the bayonet by Aaron Pegram.  
    An outdated weapon still played an important psychological role during the First World War.
  • Out of the line of fire by Deborah Beck.  
    Some of our best-known artists took part in a unique training scheme after the Second World War.
  • An Australian ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ by Stuart Braga.  
    A little-known group of Chinese spies, organised and led by an Australian, operated behind Japanese lines in occupied China during the Second World War.
  • Shooting gallery: G-George over Germany.  
    Letters from Adrian Marks, a crew member on a Lancaster bomber, tell of the drama of bombing raids over Germany.
  • Plus regular features including Reflections, Mail Call and Book Reviews

Last updated: 30 March 2021

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